Improvement in churns



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN LAFAYET SHIPE, OF CLINTON, TENNESSEE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CHURNS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 197,674, dated November2 7, 1877 application filed September 1, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN L. SHIP of Olinton, in the county of Andersonand State of Tennessee, have invented a new and valuable Improvement inChurns; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, andexact description of the construction and operation of the same,reference being had to the annexed drawing, making a part of thisspecification, and to the letters and figures of reference markedthereon.

Figure 1 of the drawing is a representation of a longitudinal verticalsectional view of my churn, and Fig. 2 is a detail view thereof.

The nature of my invention consists in the novel construction of achurn-dasher, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

The annexed drawing, to which reference is made, fully illustrates myinvention.

A represents the frame of my machine, constructed in any suitablemanner, to contain the various working parts. 13 is the churn, of anysuitable form and shape, within which is a stationary but removabledasher-frame, B, consisting of two upright side pieces, 0 0, connectedby top and bottom bars D D. The side pieces 0 G are further connected byhorizontal bars D D, alternating on opposite edges of said side pieces,as shown. E represents the dasher-shaft, passing vertically through anorifice, c, in the top B of the churn, through the top and bottom bars DD of the interior frame, and between the bars D D of said frame. To thisshaft are attached horizontal wings or paddles G G, which work betweenthe bars D and D of the interior frame, as shown.

The slats or horizontal bars of the interior frame counteract the forceof the milk, as set in motion by the wings or paddles G, therebybreaking up the globules more speedily, and facilitating the process ofbutter-making.

Above the top B of the churn the rod or shaft E is provided with a wing,G, which, by. its revolution, keeps off flies from the top of the churn.o

On the upper end of the dasher-rod E is a pulley H, connected by atwisted belt, a, with a horizontal pulley, I, and this pulley is, by abelt, I), connected with a large driving-pulley, J, the shaft or journalof which is provided with a crank, K, for operating the same, and thuscommunicate motion to the dasher-rod E.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is v Thedasher-frame B having two upright side pieces, 0, and connecting top andbottom bars D, with horizontal bars D alternating on opposite edges ofsaid side pieces, in combination with the dasher-shaft E, passingvertically through the top and bottom bars of the dasher-frame, andprovided with horizontal paddles G, substantially as and for thepurposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN LAFAYET sHIPEf Witnesses:

L. D. BROWN, 0. G. BRowN.

